If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.